Dispensary Commissioners v. Thornton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Illegality. Before Judge Sheffield. Terrell superior court. ".May term, 1898. Three executions against the dispensary commissioners of 'Terrell county, one for $150, claimed to be due,the State as a ■special tax for “carrying on a retail liquor business” during the year 1898 in the town of Dawson in that county, and the • others being similar in all respects except as to the town, which 'in one was Bronwood and in the other Sasser, were levied on • certain liquors in the…
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Illegality. Before Judge Sheffield. Terrell superior court. ".May term, 1898. Three executions against the dispensary commissioners of 'Terrell county, one for $150, claimed to be due,the State as a ■special tax for “carrying on a retail liquor business” during the year 1898 in the town of Dawson in that county, and the • others being similar in all respects except as to the town, which 'in one was Bronwood and in the other Sasser, were levied on • certain liquors in the dispensary at Dawson, and the defendants interposed an affidavit of illegality, upon the grounds: (1) The tax-collector was…
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
It follows from the decision in the case of Plumb v. Christie, 103 Ga. 686,-that the dispensary commissioners of Terrell county, under the dispensary act for that county, approved December 10, 1897 (Acts of 1897, p. 562), are mere governmental agents or officials, not only empowered but required by the legislature of the State to establish, under certain rules and conditions, dispensaries for the sale of liquors in that county; that this body is not a private corporation, and that these dispensaries are in no sense private institutions, but • they are public institutions of-the government,…
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